"Worthy of a Portrait" - an exhibition by Vladimir Avramov

Vladimir Avramov "Worthy of a Portrait" painting 22.03-10.04.2022 opening: 22.03.2022, from 6pm until 8pm

Worthy of a Portrait ,,The portrait does not reproduce the visible. Rather, it makes it more visible”

"Nothing describes democracy better than a bottle of Coca-Cola," had said Andy Warhol. And nothing describes the individual better than the open visual dialogue with him. From that unusual artistic "framing", lined with immanent psychology, expressing its uniqueness. Or in a word - from his portrait. To create a portrait, the object must have impressed and provoked you with its uniqueness, character, spirituality or heroism. All qualities directly related to humanitarianism and spiritualized "humanity". That is why humankind is the ideal, not to mention the only phenomenon worthy of portrayal, and the portrait genre becomes a sublime spiritual union between the artist and his model. But what happens when people, resp. the artist and his model are incapable of contact when we do not see each other, when our social arteries are trapped in isolation and loneliness (as is life lately)? Well, we simply transfer our need for live contact, dialogue and empathy to other, sometimes unspiritual, but dear, close subjects; we extrapolate our enthusiasm from communicating with a close person to communicating with anyone and anything (with anything), in our attempt to overcome limitations, to isolate isolation…

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